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Egil “Bud” Krogh, head of the White House plumbers,
talks with newsmen following his sentencing to serve a
minimum of six months in jail for his part in the break-in
at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in 1971.
(UPI)
Krogh sentenced
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Egil Krogh, former co-director
of the White House “plumbers” unit, was sentenced
Thursday to six months imprisonment for his role in the
burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office.
Krogh exonerated President Nixon after the sentencing,
saying “I received no specific instruction or authority
whatsoever regarding the break-in from the President,
directly or indirectly.”
Simon favors bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Energy chief William E.
Simon said Thursday one proposal being considered in the
energy crisis “focused on an elusive concept of excessive
profits rather than the real culprit, excessive crude oil
prices.”
Simon said he favored President Nixon’s bill for an
“emergency windfall profits tax” which would allow tax
incentivies to find and produce more oil.
Rodino sets meeting
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr.,
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which is
investigating the possibility of impeachment of President
Nixon, set a meeting for next week to take the first step
toward getting subpoena powers.
John M. Doar, special counsel to the committee, told
members Thursday the subpoena power could be used to
get evidence Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski says he
cannot give to the committee.
Education spending
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Citing “the highest priority” for
funding so that schools can plan their programs,
President Nixon asked Congress Thursday for total
spending of $7.6 billion on education. First congressional
reaction was mixed.
23 boys killed in fire
HEUSDEN, Belgium (UPI) — Belgium’s worst fire in
seven years killed 23 schoolboys as it raced through a
dormitory before dawn Thursday. All the victims
probably were suffocated by smoke, a fireman said.
Penny a pound ride
You can get an airplane ride
in the Griffin area at a penny a
pound for your own weight Sun
day and help the March of
Dimes.
Officials at the Griffin-
Spalding Airport made the offer
today.
Connector review planned
A meeting of Griffin City
Commissioners, Spalding
County Commissioners, and
Butts County Commissioners
has been set Jan. 30 at the
Spalding Courthouse for a
review of plans for the Griffin
connector route to 1-75.
It will be good Sunday after
noon from 2 till 4 o’clock.
The airport made the offer to
young people eight years old or
older. They can get a plane ride
simply by donating one penny
for each pound of their weight to
the March of Dimes.
State Highway officials will
be present to review progress
on the project.
This is not a public meeting to
discuss the route. Public
meetings on the route already
have been held in Spalding as
well as Butts Counties.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY N EWS
Daily Since 1872
City backs garden clubs
in drive against litter
Griffin City Commissioners
last night pledged their support
of a garden club campaign
against litter in the community.
The Federated Garden Clubs
of Griffin called the problem in
the community deplorable.
All of the garden clubs in the
federation signed a resolution
calling on the City Com
missioners to enforce anti-litter
ordinances.
Mrs. John Carlisle presented
the resolution. On hand to
support it were Mrs. Donna
Krepps of the Marie Fort
Garden Club and Mrs. Nancy
Goldstein of the Camellia
Garden Club.
Leaders from other clubs
which had signed the resolution
came to the City Commission
meeting late and didn’t have an
opportunity to voice their
support All of the clubs wanted
to be present to show
unanimous concern about the
litter problem.
The resolution was the first
item on the agenda.
Louis Goldstein, chairman,
pointed out the city has an or
dinance providing a SIOO fine for
persons convicted of littering.
He said state law provides for
$25 litter fines.
The commissioner called on
City Attorney Bob Smalley who
also is a state senator to push
legislation in the General
Assembly to raise the state fine
to SIOO.
Smalley said he would.
Tongue in cheek, he asked Mrs.
Carlisle to influence her
husband, Rep. John Carlisle, in
supporting the higher state fine.
Smalley said after the meet
ing that the legislature had
changed its SIOO fine to the
current $25 fine because it was
felt the higher fine was not
being enforced.
He said it is apparent the
lower fine is not working any
better and said he would sup
port a return to the SIOO fine for
litter.
The City Commissioners
commended the garden clubs
for their interest in promoting a
cleaner community.
City studies
cable tunnel
The Griffin City Com
missioners expressed concern
yesterday that a plan of
Southern Bell Telephone Co. to
install underground cables
down the Hill street median
might kill or damage some of
the old trees there.
A proposal to dig an un
derground tunnel, some 14
inches wide and 40 inches deep
and encased in concrete, was
presented to the commissioners
at their planning session
Judge,
attorney
reappointed
Griffin City Commissioners
last night reappointed Recor
der’s Court Judge Tom Lewis
and City Attorney Bob Smalley
for another year.
They also appointed Warren
Pugh, a painter, to the unex
pired term of Alex Stewart on
the Griffin-Spalding Planning
Commission. Stewart resigned
because he will move to
Thomaston to be a bank presi
dent.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 25, 1974
City okays
self service
gasoline pumps
Griffin City Commissioners
settled a dispute over self
service gasoline pumps last
night. The controversy had
stretched out over several
months.
With a 3-2 vote, the board put
on second and final reading an
ordinance providing for
licensing and regulating self
service pumps.
Commissioner Ernest
(Tiggy) Jones broke the 2-2
deadlock on the board. He took
office last December after the
board had put the ordinance on
first reading with a 3-2 vote.
At that time Scott Searcy was
a city commissioner and voted
with Louis Goldstein and
Raymond Head to permit the
pumps. Commissioners R. L.
(Skeeter) Norsworthy and
Preston Bunn voted against the
self service pumps.
They stuck to their position
last night and continued to vote
against it.
Floyd Williams, W. H. Allen
and Mrs. Donald Shirah, all
citizens, came to the com
mission meeting last night to
voice support for the self ser-
“If past mistakes make you
unhappy — be happy you didn’t
have to time to make more.”
yesterday by Southern Bell
official, Harry D. Waller.
The tunnel, which would
ultimately accommodate 24
cables to take care of an
ticipated county growth, would
start at the Bell office at Hill
and Poplar and extend down the
median on Hill street, under the
railroad tracts, to East
Broadway.
The commissioners said they
do not want to interfere with the
growth of the telephone com
pany, but the could not take the
chance of damaging or killing
some of the trees by the tunnel.
They discussed other ways of
routing the tunnel down Sixth
street and suggested it run next
to the curb instead of four feet
into the median as first
proposed.
Waller assured the com
missioners that his company
would cooperate with the city by
replacing the curbs, tunneling
under tree roots and by working
during hours of lighter traffic.
He said the job would take about
30 days to complete.
The commissioners said they
would give Waller an answer
within 10 days.
vice pumps.
Tom Smith, local leader of the
petroleum dealers organization,
was present to renew the ser
vice station operators’ ob
jections to the pumps.
The service station men have
contended the self service
pumps are dangerous in the
hands of people not familiar
with them.
David Hightower who
operates a service station at
Hill and Poplar streets rose to
restate his objections.
He said if the commissioners
open the city to self service
pumps, he thought it would
mean the end to stations which
offer other services now.
Hightower said he thought
conventional service stations
would be forced to go to self
service pumps and would not be
able to offer the other services
they do now.
Hightower aked each of the
commissioners to express their
feelings bout the pumps.
Commissioner Goldstein said
he had used self service pumps
and like them and favored
permitting them in the city.
Commissioner Jones in
terrupted at that point to say he
was the man on the spot in the
issue.
He said he made two trips to
the state fire marshals office to
check on the requirements for
self service pumps. He said he
was told that they must meet all
safety standards that are
required of other pumps.
Jones said a number of people
had expressed themselves both
for and against the self service
pumps and generally he said
more people had favored them.
Based on that, he said he
would vote for the pumps.
Commissioner Norsworthy
said he didn’t use self service
pumps and still was opposed to
them.
Commissioner Bunn in
dicated in his vote he still op
posed them.
Commissioner Head said he
had used the self service pumps
and favored them here. He said
he didn’t believe the self service
pumps would run service
stations out of business and
believed the competition would
benefit the public.
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Dogwood
seedlings
free here
Dogwood seedlings will be
distributed free of charge on a
first come, first served basis
tomorrow from the County
Agent’s office, Fifth and Slaton
beginning at 9 a.m.
The project is a joint venture
of the Women’s Division
Chamber of Commerce, and
city and county commissioners.
Some 2.500 seedlings will be
given away.
The project is part of a con
tinuing beautification program.
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Vol. 102 No. 22
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ATLANTA — Georgia State Senator Culver Kidd (r),
chairman of a committee studing five pieces of ethics
legislation, listens as State Senator Bobby Rowan
explains one of his ethics bills before the committee. Sen.
Kidd said he hoped to have a composite proposal ready for
a senate vote by late next week. (UPI)
City tax
deadline
extended
City Commissioners voted
last night to extend the deadline
on city taxes a month to March
20.
Payment of 1973 taxes later
than that date will be subject to
penalties.
City officials urged people to
pay their taxes early and avoid
the rush.
The city also reminded people
that business licenses must be
secured by March 1 to avoid late
payment penalties.
In other action last night the
commissioners:
—Designated retiring Police
Chief Leo Blackwell as Chief
Emeritus and approved a
resolution commending him for
his service to the city.
Approved a resolution of
praise for Claude Donehoo who
has retired as city tax collector.
—Put on first reading the
zoning to retail commercial a
lot at West Wall and 16th.
—Put on first reading zoning
to light industrial a lot near the
Spalding Shopping Center so a
brand) bank can be constructed
there.
—Put on final reading the
zoning for office use the east
side of Fifth street between
Poplar and College.
—Put on final reading a five
per cent increase in pension
payments for retired city
employes.
—Placed an order for a fire
truck for $96,926 with delivery
expected in 1975. The truck
would make it possible to
remove people from the fourth
floor of the hospital in the event
of a fire. This can’t be done with
present equipment
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 56, high yesterday
72, low yesterday 59, high
tomorrow in upper 60’s, low
tomorrow in 50*s. Sunrise
tomorrow 8:41, sunset
tomorrow 6:59.
Federal complex
bid $1,442,145
Roberts Brothers, Anderson
& Company of Gadsden, Ala.,
submitted the apparent low bid
on the federal building for
Griffin.
The bid was for $1,542,145. It
was the lowest of five.
Others were:
Reddick Construction Com
pany of Thomaston $1,613,220;
Dawson Construction of East
Gadsden, Ala., $1,655,271; A. J.
Kellos Construction Co. of
Augusta $1,678,493; and Carney
General Contractors of High
land Park, 111. $1,829,016.
The bids were opened in
Savannah yesterday afternoon
44 pct. drinkers
not charged here
Around 44 percent of the
drinking drivers picked up by
city and county lawmen during
the past four and one-half
months, were not charged with
driving under the influence.
They were not considered
legally drunk, since their
alcohol blood content registered
under .10 per cent when given
intoximeter tests.
The Griffin City Com
missioners were given a report
yesterday by Public Safety
Director Leonard Pitts which
showed that of the 345 persons
given intoximeter tests, from
Sept. Ito Jan. 14,191 registered
high enough to be legally drunk.
Three others were charged with
being under the influence, even
though their count did not reach
.10, other factors were taken
into consideration.
Griffin police administered
263 tests and found that 139
Inside Tip
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City okays
liquor
licenses
City Commissioners approv
ed four liquor package store
licenses last night and an
nounced they would combine
the package and liquor pouring
licenses into one ordinance.
No pouring licenses have been
issued, since the pouring
regulations have not been put on
final reading.
The commissioners said the
two ordinances would be easier
to handle if they are combined
into one. The original or
dinances will not be changed in
the combining process, the
commissioners said.
Package licenses were ap
proved for Thomas Edward
Vickery for a store on Broad
street, for Calvin Davis of
Spalding Beverage Company,
for Jack and Helen Faulkner at
Plaza Bottle Shop and for Harry
Lamar Callaway and Mrs. Reba
Limerick Callaway for a
package business in connection
with a motel on the North Ex
pressway.
at the Army Corps of
Engineers.
The proposed contract calls
for construction to be completed
within 420 calendar days after
work starts.
The contract could be signed
in a week or two and work could
be under way in a month or two.
The building will house the
post office and other federal
offices.
It will be located in the area of
West Solomon and North Eighth
streets. The federal govern
ment already has secured the
property for the structure.
drivers registered .10 or more,
57 ranged under .10 but above
.05, and 62 persons were under
.05. Five drivers refused to take
the intoximeter test.
In 82 tests given by Spalding
Sheriff’s deputies, 52 showed .10
or higher, 14 ranged from .05 to
.10, and 13 were under .05. There
also were five drivers arrested
by county officers who refused
to take the test
Under the law, anyone has the
right to refuse, but by doing so,
his driver’s license may be
suspended for a period of six
months.
Records were incomplete on
the many other intoximeter
tests, well into the 100’s, which
were administered in Griffin
and Spalding County by
troopers at the Griffin State
Patrol Post and by members of
the patrol’s T-Squad.